However, there are some very good Mexican brands such as Helvex that closely resemble premium German stuff such as Grohe. It's decent quality and the prices are good. Perhaps most importantly, repair parts or replacements are available locally. With the corrosive water on islands, this is important.

For example, our shower heads were all gunked up and starting to look bad. We went to Boxito and replaced them for about USD$7.50 each *including* new arms. These are very similar to the Grohe ones we have in the US, which rubber spray nozzles that you can rub to help get rid of calcifications easily. We also got a couple of backup heads without the arms for about USD$4 each. They have much more fancy ones, but these met our needs.

They have at Boxitos what to me is a shocking opulence of bathroom fixtures now. When we were first building on the island it was difficult to find toilet seats. They had to be special ordered. And choices of fixtures were one of several although they've always had Helvex. Our Helmex plumbing fixtures from Boxitos have all corroded out about now. 12 years down the line. We recently replaced them with new stuff from the King's Treasure available at Boxitos

Most of the things we are looking for are the towel bars, TP holders, Rope hooks. Basically things that mount on walls.
Strange our condo has really nice decorations and upgrades yet not a single towel holder.

Your comment about toilet seats made me laugh, Carey. When we first started visiting Mexico in the mid-80's it was hard to find a decent budget hotel room with a toilet seat! I've never understood the concept of no toilet seat. I used to joke I was going to bring one in my luggage.